Ride out doomsday in a stylish missile silo (photos)

With reinforced concrete walls up to 9 feet thick, this Kansas missile silo could withstand a nuclear strike. Today it's a sold-out condo complex opening in a few months.

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Deluxe doomsday living

For years, Larry Hall, a former software engineer, has been working to turn a '60s-era Atlas F missile silo in north-central Kansas into luxury lockdown residences in preparation for inevitable end-times. He says all units in the Apocalypse-proof complex sold out this month, and there's even a waiting list.

This conceptual drawing of the 14-story deluxe post-apocalypse home in the ground includes a silo cap with bullet-proof windows for observing the ruins of our planet, a food supply that could feed 70 people indefinitely, and supplies of purified water.

Not shown is an attached two-story subterranean structure, for a total of 45,000 square feet of off-grid, nuclear-hardened living.

Atlas F ICBM launch site

Built at a cost of some $15 million each, Atlas F ICBM launch sites were deployed in the 1960s to deter Soviet attacks amid the Cold War. Survival Condo developer Larry Hall says his is the only Atlas F silo to be fully converted and modernized.

Installing rebar

Workers install rebar in this 1960s silo construction photo. The walls were built up to 9 feet thick to withstand nuclear attacks and shock waves traveling more than 2,000 mph. Survival Condo packs some 600 tons of rebar in its walls.

Plans for silo's bottom

Living areas

How to lock-down in style: This view of a residential floor of the silo shows the bedrooms, kitchen areas, and living rooms that residents would use. Video screens would compensate for the lack of windows.